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Internet speed test

Well, I'm paying for a 2mb connection. What do you think I can do about the following results?
1) Complain
2) Reduce my monthly payment accordingly
3) Vote with my feet and move elsewhere
4) Pack up the internet and live happily ever after

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LOL. my mobile phone is faster than that frank.
I used to use maureen lipman (beatie) but canned it as I only got 0.350 meg at best.
changed to sky 8 meg (ten quid a month) and now average about 6.5 meg, which is good because I can download a film quicker than I can watch one. leagally of course.

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Im also using Virginmedia broadband 20meg and got

You should ring up and complain Frank. If you ring up and say that you are thinking of leaving and joining sky unless they can offer you a better deal i guarantee they will offer either money off each month ( as they did do with me on friday just gone) or they will offfer you extra TV channels if you have TV or they will upgrade your broadband to the next bracket.

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Hi, Frank

Originally Posted by frank

Well, I'm paying for a 2mb connection. What do you think I can do about the following results?
1) Complain
2) Reduce my monthly payment accordingly
3) Vote with my feet and move elsewhere
4) Pack up the internet and live happily ever after

All is simple and not...paying for 2mb connection you have only warranty for that speed from your home to your provider...after that you need a good luck...for example if you try to use some server with low speed of 500kb you cannot get more then maybe 300-400kb, if..

....from other posts you can see they ping a local server at very close distance and they have high speed...

Anyhow even when you ping a "local" server your speed is too low....try to complain and see what they will say....

Best regards, Josip

It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious... Don't ever underestimate the power of stupid people when they are in large groups.

Please, don't teach me how to be stupid....No job is as important as to jeopardize the safety of you or those that you work with.

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all depends on what type of connection u have, here in SA they shape u according to your usage if u are and uncapped account. But a 2mb line seems pretty slow for England. The average speeds should be around 10 - 50mb lines. Also auckland server :/ is a long way from home.

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Show-off, we're excited about copper conductors down here in the south west.

its ok having that speed mate but will still be restricted by site/server speeds, until the world plays catch up

Also funny you should mention copper, had to endure aluminium line here for a couple of years, as that was cheap at the time MK was built, then I found out the cause of my terrible line, often less than dial up 56k and hagged the life out of BT until upgraded to copper

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